Given your interest in the commons and revenue reforms, you may enjoy hearing this month's featured special guests who'll briefly address local taxation and/or spending: recent Portland City Council candidate Nicholas Caleb and John Mullin of the Oregon Law Center on prospects for real change, especially to the property tax. The City Club of Portland’s Property Tax Research Committee issued a report in November, and the Northwest Economic Research Center recently released a report covered by The Oregonian: (http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/03/study_oregons_weird_property_t.html
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Meanwhile, may you have a wonderful "Junuary"!
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